Think Murdoch will take his advice, knowing what the reaction would be among Fox Newss many, many gun-rights-supporting viewers?

Dont mind Murphy. Hes a freshman from a very blue state where feelings are still understandably raw after Newtown, so apparently hes decided that no anti-gun grandstanding opportunity is too cheap for him to use to try to raise his profile back home. Coming soon, presumably: Murphy calls on NASCAR to drop the N, R, and As from its name.

The National Rifle Association-sponsored NASCAR race slated for this weekend is inappropriate in the immediate wake of the Newtown massacre, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, wrote to the races broadcaster on Thursday.

The race not only brings national attention to an organization that has been the face of one side of this heated debate, it also features the live shooting of guns at the end of the race, Murphy wrote to Rupert Murdoch, the chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, which owns the Fox network where the race will be broadcast

In his letter to Murdoch, Murphy cited the News Corp. boss past support for tighter gun control laws in the United States, including a message Murdoch posted on Twitter shortly after the December Newtown shooting

A chance for the NRA and NASCAR to show what they are made of and I’m not holding my breath on either point. I smell a cave in and will be the first to acknowledge my wrong headedness if one or both prove worthy of recognition.

Perhaps the good Senator should seek professional help to deal with the apparent fear and anxiety that the mere mention of an inanimate object seems to evoke in him. How can he effectively serve his constituency if he swoons when the word "gun" is spoken? /Sarc

Never in my life time has a politician and his party taken such a gut-wrenching tragedy as what happened in Newtown and used it to attack the nation’s most honorable citizens (the traditional American gun owners) and the nation’s most honorable independent organization (the NRA). The immorality and lack of integrity of these politicians is beneath contempt.

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posted on 04/13/2013 6:08:42 AM PDT
by iacovatx
(Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)

Dont mind Murphy. Hes a freshman from a very blue state where feelings are still understandably raw after Newtown, so apparently hes decided that no anti-gun grandstanding opportunity is too cheap for him to use to try to raise his profile back home.

Let's bear in mind, CT is the home of a couple of gun manufacturers. This shows you the the thought process of Murphy and his ilk. He's willing to force these companies out of CT , costing hundreds of jobs in a state that can't afford to lose any jobs. Ideology trumps the people he represents.

And that’s exactly what will happen. Once the citizens are disarmed, they then have control over our tongues as well. A lot of people that can speak out about things now will be punished severely in a totalitarian state!

Anxiety Management: learning how to move anxiety to the time we can do something about it, removing the current stress which is higher until we can form a way to eliminate or minimize the problem.....(this time the corrupt administration of Obama)

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posted on 04/13/2013 6:29:46 AM PDT
by The Wizard
(Madam President is my President now and in the future)

Maybe he’s worried a gun will grow legs, walk into his house and shoot him all by its lil old self.

When that moron who stabbed all those people at that college was walking around campus carrying a stuffed monkey or dolls, talking to them, did ANYONE say “you know, we should tell someone something is wrong with this guy”!. Or tell parents with a mentally ill child “if your child has a mental condition DO NOT put a gun in their reach”. OR maybe if your child is so deep into violent video games TAKE THEM AWAY and get that child help.

No parent wants to think there is something wrong with their child. The parents of the two Columbine murderers weren’t even aware that their sons were building bombs and collecting guns. Oh, that’s right, they didn’t want to invade their childrens privacy, and the NO SNITCH policy that most children seem to cling to has to stop. If a friend is saying “I’m going to kill so and so TELL SOMEBODY!!

Think Murdoch will take his advice, knowing what the reaction would be among Fox Newss many, many gun-rights-supporting viewers.

Murdoch is hardly what you would call a solid conservative. He's been close to the Clintons, having supported HRC in her Senate races and getting in with the Clinton Global Initiative (whatever that is). FOX News presents more people and comments from the left than it generally did a few years ago.

Bottom line: Murdoch keeps a sharp eye on Obama's FCC, which he knows can hurt him badly if he gets too far out of line with the Administration.

Murphy should be impeached for using his elected office to interfere with legitimate free enterprise in the U.S. Any elected official who tries to damage legitimate free enterprise in our nation should be impeached and sent home - also negate any retirement package for such an official.

I'm not an expert on the subject, but that doesn't sound right as a broad statement. I think some of that depends on whether you're talking about cable carriers (the companies whose services the ordinary viewer would contract for, like Time Warner, for instance) or the cable channels and networks (like FoxNews, CNN, ESPN, CNBC, etc., etc.). I know that the cable carriers are largely regulated by local governments, but I also know that the FCC has to approve of mergers and acquisitions amongst them, or at least that was true during the Clinton years. The guess here is that the networks, like FoxNews are licensed by the FCC as well.

Regardless, Murdoch's NewsCorp operates a whole slew of over-the-air Fox Network television broadcast stations, with outlets in just about every major market in the country. Those definitely do require FCC licensing, renewable periodically. So, he has a lot of skin in the game, no matter what the legal status of cable regulation.

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